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The Twilight Zone: The Wunderkind (2019)
The message is not to vote a president for entertainment.
Despite obvious allusions, this episode does NOT compare Trump in person with a child. The moral goes deeper and warns never to vote any president only for his emotionally entertaining value.
While in this story it is is a youtube kid, the key is that The People finds him such cute and funny and entertaining that they ignore that he is intellectually and emotionally totally unsuited for the profession of a president. Democracy is not a gameshow!
Only the fact that in real life the US constitution would not permit a that young president should have been handled (this is the Twilight Zone) by a supernatural intervention - e.g. that after the kid got popular enough that his social media fandom demands him for president, he wishes (e.g. during a shooting star) that the minimum legal age in the US constitution would be now 3 instead of 35 years (showing politicians discuss why the founding fathers had set the age so low). Crucial for the story is not to raise the impression that it was magic that made the people elect that kid, which would totally spoil the message that he solely got elected for his emotional entertaining value and so caused the mayhem. Perhaps this was why the author intentionally omitted here a supernatural element, which would have made the message too ambiguous.
Fist of Zen (2007)
Fist of Zen - FAQ
I have written a detailed FAQ with episode guide about the reality show "Fist of Zen".
It comprehensively explains the game rules and psychology of this ethically questionable torture game show, as well as health risks for candidates and copycats, various technical details about the tasks, the film locations, info about allusions, relation to genuine Zen and many related web links. The episode guide part includes various quotations from the Zen Master. Due to this show is discussed very controversially, not everybody may agree with the criticism section. However I think that all important aspects are appropriately mentioned. The FoZ FAQ can be found here:
Fist of Zen FAQ: http://tvworlds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=559
German language version: http://www.tvforum.de/shows/t-fist-of-zen-27185/page3.html#post211525